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"In the last day, we lost one Ukrainian soldier, and another nine were injured as a result of military clashes," Lysenko said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 101 times overnight, using banned artillery systems 12 times, mortars 38 times, small arms and rocket-propelled grenade launchers 62 times, and tanks five times.